Synonyms & Antonyms for conscious

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Adjective

aware, cognizant, conscious, sensible, alive, awake mean having knowledge of something. aware implies vigilance in observing or alertness in drawing inferences from what one experiences.
aware of changes in climate cognizant implies having special or certain knowledge as from firsthand sources.
not fully cognizant of the facts conscious implies that one is focusing one's attention on something or is even preoccupied by it.
conscious that my heart was pounding sensible implies direct or intuitive perceiving especially of intangibles or of emotional states or qualities.
sensible of a teacher's influence alive adds to sensible the implication of acute sensitivity to something.
alive to the thrill of danger awake implies that one has become alive to something and is on the alert.
a country always awake to the threat of invasion

Examples of conscious in a Sentence

Adjective

The chances of being admitted conscious to a hospital without being pressed to produce a living will, have become virtually nil …— Joan Didion, New York Review of Books, 9 June 2005"Was she good-looking?" "Actually, my conscious mind no longer remembers anything about her physical appearance. She went the way of my seventh-grade French."— Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan's Week, 1994Incidentally, neither my mother nor I was conscious of any rudeness.— Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being, 1979Bilbo bowed. He had no hat to take off, and was painfully conscious of his many missing buttons.— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937
Is the patient conscious yet?
He was fully conscious when we found him.
the capacity for conscious thought

Noun

For myself, ever since 1922, when I saw my first picture, films have been barreling through my conscious to my unconscious, but insofar as they remain in my conscious, they get themselves arranged in hierarchies of value and, more important, affection.— Stanley Kauffmann, Before My Eyes, (1974) 1980

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